Example sentences of "would take [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But perhaps it would not come , after all , perhaps they would take one look at Mrs Thorne and refuse her admittance into a ward of lunatic old ladies . |
| 2 | At each stop they would take one side of the street each and he could not help notice the disappointment on people 's faces if they got him rather than her . |
| 3 | When he last spoke , Mr Janman said Britain would take one refugee from Hong Kong ‘ over my dead body ’ . |
| 4 | In addition , students would take one option from the range of theology or development courses at the university , and write a dissertation which might be linked to the seminar series . |
| 5 | Who would believe a sweet child would take that sort of revenge ? ’ |
| 6 | He totted up the figures night after night , and ‘ he would take that piece of paper out of his pocket and look at it again and again ’ . |
| 7 | Indeed , Mr Pocklington and his ilk would take small cannon onto a suitable lake and fire them off for the edification of the plumber partridges who came to nest in the district . |
| 8 | She had always sworn that her private life would take second place to her career until she had established herself , that she would never become involved with anyone remotely connected with racing , and fortunately temptation had rarely come her way . |
| 9 | Oblivious of the equivocal nature of her remarks , Gwendolen was hoping that Angelina , with whom Sir Thomas had chosen to sit at a table for two only , would take due note of her omission of the ‘ sir ’ . |
| 10 | The Germans , already in the country in large numbers , had seized Rome , and Hitler had ordered the setting up of a political system which would take effective control of the country and also take under its wing any future Fascist administration . |
| 11 | Although admitting to the Kuomintang General Chang Fa-k'uei that he was a communist , he apparently persuaded him that it would take fifty years for communism to work in Vietnam ; and , in any event , it appeared that , of all the groupings of Vietnamese nationalists , patriots , émigrés and revolutionaries who were to be found in Southeast China , none of them was as dynamic as the Vietminh . |
| 12 | As I said , it would take fifty years before any decision we reach here , even made an impression on the one percent of land we do own . |
| 13 | They would take separate holidays at least once every two years ; they would have at most two children and at a time of her choosing ; neither would publicly humiliate the other ; the spectrum of marital offences under this heading ranging from spoiling the other 's dinner-party stories to a too-public infidelity . |
| 14 | I would take better care of him afterwards , ’ he says . |
| 15 | The purpose of the application is to allow him to die through natural causes which , it was thought , would take two weeks at most . |
| 16 | Tonight the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford said it would take two patients from the airlift . |
| 17 | Clearly at a basic level if you just gave someone a board and lake to practise on , apart from being dangerous it would take many months of frustration for them to work out what to do . |
| 18 | No doubt the threat of national paralysis seemed much worse than it was : after all it would take many weeks for the full effects of a national strike to have an impact . |
| 19 | On matinee days , Ken would take other members of the cast to the Kardoma restaurant in Piccadilly for a poached egg . |
| 20 | The two would take low stances in the cages and stare out together on the world , separated by bars but joined in a common sympathy . |
| 21 | Victorin Hameni Bieleu , a leading member of the opposition , said that many parties believed that the RDPC would take complete control of the Assembly as a result and predicted a boycott of the elections " if things continue like this " . |
| 22 | If I were a member of a species , highly evolved and perfectly adapted to a life among craggy rocks , pecking out the odd lamb 's eye , devouring a few mice , picking through a nice gamey carcass occasionally , but mostly just hovering gracefully around on thermals below cliffs , I would take great exception to being described as ‘ just ’ a crow . |
| 23 | A born poseur , she would take great pleasure in performing tricks to admiring audiences along the ritzy Avenue de la Croisette in Cannes . |
| 24 | As a working detective , it would take six months of living with a mate to trust him and know that when it came to the Crown Court appearance he would know exactly what to say . |
| 25 | This processing , which would take 2,000 hours in the Mixing Department , where labour is paid £12 per hour , would save the company additional purchasing costs of £5,000 . |
| 26 | He told a packed lecture chamber at Strathclyde University that the increase in CO emissions was now so large that even if there were a 1 per cent reduction worldwide from 2000 , it would take 100 years for levels to stabilise in the atmosphere . |
| 27 | Luciano Querzoni , president of the region of Emilia-Romagna ( which had Bologna as its the capital ) , declared that the province would take legal steps against the decision and that " justice still has to be done " . |
| 28 | Dobbs ( 1979 ) cites a proposed service in Anglesey that would take 70 minutes by post-bus compared with 27 minutes by conventional bus . |
| 29 | He had to recite from memory in front of his headmaster fifty Greek lines from the play Medea — a severe punishment , for learning fifty lines of verse in a language imperfectly known would take several hours of spare time . |
| 30 | It would take several minutes at least to get back to the Bridge . |